TelcoBridges™ Raises the Bar of VoIP Density Using Mindspeed® Comcerto® Processors

Innovative Integration of VoIP Processors Extends TelcoBridges' Leadership as Provider of the Industry's Highest VoIP Density

Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) February 20, 2008 -- TelcoBridges Inc., supplier of the industry's most innovative and versatile telecom hardware and software products for telecom solution developers, today announced it has leveraged Mindspeed's voice processing technology to deliver the industry's highest port density. As a key supplier of components for TelcoBridges' Tmedia™ family of telecom and media gateway platforms, Mindspeed's Comcerto digital signal processors are integrated by TelcoBridges to extend its industry-leading benchmarks in VoIP capacity. Tmedia currently delivers up to 2048 universal VoIP channels in a single 1U rack mount device.

"We are pleased to partner with Mindspeed as a key supplier of voiceband processors for our Tmedia family of products," said Gaetan Campeau, President of TelcoBridges. "Their Comcerto chips have been tightly integrated within our TMG3200 Media Gateway line-up and TMP6400 products, enabling TelcoBridges to double our VoIP channel density compared to our closest competitor in a 1U form factor. Our use of Mindspeed's Comcerto processors on our field-upgradeable plug-in modules provides the price performance, flexibility and scalability required for today's media gateway applications."

The seamless integration between TelcoBridges' telecom platforms and Mindspeed's carrier infrastructure voice processors provides unprecedented flexibility to choose any popular vocoder on-the-fly, including iLBC and wireless codecs. The solution combines powerful digital signal processors optimized for voice processing, a flexible packet-processing engine, and VoIP transcoding.

"The TelcoBridges Tmedia product family is an innovative, highly scalable and full-featured telecom platform that provides a competitive advantage," said Jim Johnston, Chief Technology Officer of Mindspeed. "TelcoBridges truly exploits all the performance of the Comcerto voice processors by aggregating the power of 16 chips in a single device. We are impressed by TelcoBridges' know-how and we are truly proud to partner with them"

About TelcoBridges

TelcoBridges is clearly defining the future of communications technologies. By supplying the industry's best telecom platform, TelcoBridges is helping telecom solution developers of VoIP and TDM solutions realize their bright ideas. TelcoBridges' customers develop and deploy carrier-grade telecom solutions for some of the world's largest operators in more than 30 countries. For more information, please visit www.telcobridges.com

About Mindspeed Technologies

Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks. The company's three key product families include high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services across wireline and wireless networks, and WAN communications solutions including T/E carrier physical-layer and link-layer devices, as well as ATM/MPLS network processors. For more information, please visit www.mindspeed.com

Media Inquiries:

Derek Peterson

For Immediate Release PR (for TelcoBridges)

Tel: +1 617 262 1968 x 103

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Claudio Spera

TelcoBridges

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